Area Visual Manager, Ca

**Company Description**
At H&M, our purpose is to liberate fashion for the many. We want to shape a new world in Fashion. A world with one ultimate goal: to unleash your self-expression. As an H&M colleague, you’re encouraged to be yourself & more. You’ll take on new responsibilities from day one, learn skills for life, and find new ways to make your big dreams come true.

Our company is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and belonging, and we actively seek colleagues who share our commitment.

About the Role

As an Area Visual Manager in the Visual function, you contribute to an inspiring, commercial, & consistent customer experience by implementing visual standards & commercial excellence. Together with the Area and store teams you secure a strong implementation of the Store Activation Plan and follow-up the Visual & Commercial Goals. You lead, coach & develop strong visual merchandising teams through upskilling and secure a sustainable visual merchandising talent pipeline within the Area.

This field role reports into the **_Area Manager _**and is based out of **_Vancouver, BC._**

A Day in the Life

Working at H&M means no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will include the following responsibilities*
- Drive implementation of the Sales market visual and commercial goals together with Area, and store teams
- Set a clear plan to deliver on inspiring and commercial customer experience through product prioritization, commerciality, presentation, styling, and window including in-store communication through global commercial guidelines
- Follow up on commercial priorities together with the rest of the Area team to secure visual and commercial standards within the stores
- Ensure that you and your store teams are up-to-date and understand current fashion trends, visual guidelines, styling techniques and competitor landscape so you can anticipate your customer needs
- Execute and follow-up implementation of the visual commercial guidelines, Sales market seasonal focuses and commercial priorities through regular coaching store visits and feedback to secure visual consistency
- Take a holistic grip on learning & development coach and inspire store teams in visual and commercial knowledge, including customer experience strategies and fashion expertise to improve visual and commercial consistency in the Area
- Create a sustainable talent pipeline with the right competencies within the visual merchandising team promoting diversity
- Collaborate with HR team to identify, develop and recruit talents to build (future) organization for Visual & Commercial Leaders and contribute towards forecast needs
- Required domestic and international travel up to 60% of the time

**Qualifications**
Who You Are:

- 2-4 years of past retail visual merchandising experience, preferably with leadership responsibilities
- Fashion School Degree or similar experience within the Fashion industry preferred
- Solution orientated and flexibility to find the best solution in line with our values
- Familiarity with recent technologies and tools introduced to physical stores
- Strong visual merchandising skills and ability to drive business through creativity and commerciality
- Strong commitment and experience with providing a high level of customer service
- Ability to coach and counsel staff and performance management and progressive discipline techniques
- Proficient at Microsoft Office
- Must be able to work with hand and power operated tools and lift up to 25 pounds in order to execute display set-ups
- Inclusive, positive, open to feedback, willing to multitask and learn on the job

Why You’ll Love Working at H&M
- We value diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, and disability
- We pride ourselves on being a values-driven organization, guided by our 7 unique values that have been part of our success story for over 75 years
- You’ll have access to our Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs) to find community and networking opportunities among colleagues
- We are an inclusive company where you’re encouraged to be yourself at work
- You will have access to a large global talent community, where career growth and aspirations have no limits
- We believe in supporting your overall wellbeing and offer comprehensive benefits inclusive of health insurance, wellness and family support programs, company match 401k, paid leave programs, and paid time off, including a community day to serve your local community
- You’ll be able to express your personal style with our employee discount at H&M, & Other Stories, and COS

**Additional Information**
- This job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job and is not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, and responsibilities assigned for this job at the company’s discretion.

EEOC Code: PRO